A 24-year-old Indian woman got a divorce from a Rajasthani court after her husband broke his promise to equip their home with a toilet. The newspaper The Times of India writes today, specifying that the judge accepted his wife's request, believing that not having toilets in the house represents an "act of cruelty" towards women. Married in 2011 at 18 in Bhilwara, the girl waited for four years for her husband to honor the commitment made on the wedding day, but then in 2015, tired of having to wait for sunset to be able to go to the fields to fulfill the physiological needs , he decided to defend his dignity by asking for a divorce. In the hearing of the trial on Friday before a family court, the magistrate first heard the reasons of the husband, according to which the wife's request was "unusual" given that many women of the village went out into the fields in the absence of the bathroom, and then given the green light to divorce by equating the absence of a bathroom in the house to an act of cruelty towards women.
